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Action-focused indie game BUTCHER launched in 2016 from phobia-game-studio, with crunching-koalas as publisher. It sits at a $9.99 initial price and has 1,020 Steam reviews marked mixed with 0% positive.
Overview
BUTCHER is a 2016 Action game developed by Phobia Game Studio and published by Crunching Koalas. On Steam it has gathered 1,045 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Phobia Game Studio with publisher Crunching Koalas is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 53,000 to 124,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, BUTCHER can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,045
Positive
86%
Steam appid
474210
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.053K to 124K
units (median: 89K)
≈ $304K to $710K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for BUTCHER at roughly 53,000 to 124,000 copies, with a median around 89,000, derived from its 1,045 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $507K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
15 observed days · window low $1.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $2.49. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-07-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has BUTCHER sold?
- indielist estimates BUTCHER has sold between 53,295 and 124,355 units (median 88,825), derived from its 1,045 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed BUTCHER?
- BUTCHER was developed by Phobia Game Studio and published by Crunching Koalas.
- Who published BUTCHER?
- BUTCHER was published by Crunching Koalas, developed by Phobia Game Studio. See Crunching Koalas's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was BUTCHER released?
- BUTCHER was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does BUTCHER have on Steam?
- BUTCHER has 1,045 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is BUTCHER worth playing?
- Steam players rate BUTCHER 86% positive across 1,045 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like BUTCHER can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Phobia Game Studio's other releases and Crunching Koalas's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BUTCHER sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same BUTCHER page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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